Despite California’s wobbly economy and high unemployment, state exporters had their best performance ever for the month of October. California exported goods totaling $12.91 billion in October, a 16.5 percent increase over $11.08 billion sent to foreign markets in October 2009. In inflation-adjusted terms, California exports exceeded by 1.1 percent the previous high for an October, set three years ago, according to an analysis of Friday’s U.S. Commerce Department trade figures by Beacon Economics, a consulting firm with offices in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. October also marked the 12th consecutive month of year-over-year increases in California’s export trade.

Entertainment

Netflix, the Los Gatos online DVD rental and Internet streaming company, is joining the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. S&P announced the changes to its widely watched stock index late Thursday afternoon. Netflix, Seattle-based F5 Networks and Houston-based Newfield Exploration will join the index effective Dec. 17. The three companies will replace The New York Times Co., Office Depot and Eastman Kodak, which are moving to the S&P MidCap 400 index. Netflix’s stock has skyrocketed in recent months as it has drawn customers to its online streaming service. The company has a market value of about $10 billion, compared with about $1.4 billion for both The New York Times Co. and Kodak.

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Connecticut’s attorney general has issued a legal demand to Mountain View-based Google that the company turn over data from unsecured wireless networks collected by its Street View cars, saying the information is necessary to determine whether the company broke state laws. Google has promised that it will not use any of the 600 gigabytes of data — roughly equivalent to 300 million printed pages — it collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses dating back to 2007. Google has until next Friday to respond to the civil investigative demand, the equivalent of a subpoena, issued Friday by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for data that Street View cars collected in that state.

Personnel

Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson announced Friday that Bernard J. Tyson, executive vice president, has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of the organization. Halvorson continues as chairman and CEO.

Otto Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 at the end of a brief tourist visit to North Korea. He had been medically evacuated and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center when he died at age 22.